Drawing pretty faces is delightful. Especially watching perfect creamy complexions reveal themselves in the wake of the marker.

I can't help but ponder just how helpful a pretty face actually is. Some say pretty face, easy life. Perhaps so. Interesting how many judgments we make based on just a person's face. Most are positive, I'd say, but certainly not all of them.

On balance, if given a choice we would rather be pretty though, surely? It's like the old adage about money not buying happiness, but making unhappiness bearable. Being pretty opens a few doors, but has an obvious downside as Julie Burchill points out...

"It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast." Julie Burchill